Success Stories
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Friday, Jan 11, 2019
Agua4All – Merced County
More than one million Californians lack access to safe drinking water, and their only alternatives are expensive bottled water or sugary beverages. Low-income, predominately Hispanic communities in the state are disproportionately affected, contributing to a public health crisis whereby one in three Hispanics and nearly half of the state’s adults are prediabetic.
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Thursday, Nov 29, 2018
Financial counseling is essential to students with debt
In January, D. Nathan Cieszynski was teaching a course that he knew well and had offered so many times that there should have been few surprises. During his January workshop, however, a young man in the course gave him pause.
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Thursday, Oct 25, 2018
Investment collaborative helps fund Native-owned business
Zuni Indian Reservation, N.M. – Some three decades ago Darrell Tsabetsaye opened a convenience store called Major Market on the Zuni Indian Reservation on the Arizona-northern New Mexico border. Though such stores are fixtures on many street corners, Tsabetsaye’s was neither common nor convenient to establish.
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Thursday, Sep 20, 2018
Operator training and testing collaboration equals an increase in certified staff
Many organizations promote water operator training, assist with operator-in-training or certification, or help those who want to increase their operator certification level. At Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC), we believe this is a very important part of our work.
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Thursday, Aug 30, 2018
502 Direct Loan Packaging Program increases access to home ownership
In February, Daphne Rotolo received some distressing news from a woman she was helping to find better housing. As a homeownership assistant with Housing Resources of Western Colorado, she’s seen and heard about many troublesome living situations. This was among the worst.
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